Minister Oliver Objects to the European Union’s Discrimination of Canadian Crude Oil

24 October 2011

In this press release you can read the letter sent to the European Union’s Commissioner for Energy, Günther Oettinger Resources Minister Joe Oliver criticizing the Fuel Quality Directive for being ‘discriminatory’ against the tar sands.

The full press release is here. This is part of a final aggressive lobby push from the Canadian Government following the recommendation from the European Commission to assign the tar sands a higher carbon intensity value based on peer reviewed scientific studies.